Kinoteka

The identical twin Quay Brothers were born near Philadelphia in a town with a large European immigrant population, which fuelled their interest in Eastern European culture. They moved to London in the late 1960s to study at the Royal College of Art. They spent the 1980s making TV commercials and music videos in order to support their personal projects, mostly based around their trademark puppet animation and typically drawing on literary sources. 1995 saw the premiere of their first feature, the almost entirely live-action Institute Benjamenta.